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THE GLEANER GRAHAM. N. C., MAK 0, 1930. 0 IS8CID SVEIiY THUB61/A1 . J. D. KEKNODLE, Editor. 0 $1.00 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. Entered at trie Postofflce at Graham, V N. C.. ?? eecoAiu-oiaee matter ? ^ 11 CHOOSING A PRESIDENT f At a meeting of the university trustees in Raleigh Tuesday a com mittee was appointed for the pur- j pose of investigating and consider-1 { ing the fitness of persons suggested 1 for the presidency to fill the va cancy caused by the resign tion of j f Dr. Chase. The committc ?? is not j ( limited to North Carolina for suit able persons for the position. L It is no easy matter to find a,; man suitable in all respects?per-j haps that cannot and will not be i ^ done. The matter is of enough 11 importance to warrant talcing p!en-! ty of time. It may call for a draft f of a man from the head ol some; other institution, just as was done)( in the case of Dr. Chase. ^ It might be well to provide a chairman of the faculty and in I doing so a suitable head might be j developed. That would be better!' than making a mistake. ,i A number of distinguished edu-11 cators have been suggested by their friends. The right man may have , been mentioned that needs only to be given an opportunity to prove his fitness. Serving as chairman for a season would bring the neces sary qualities and qualifications in to the open. It is of local interest that Dr. W. A. Harper, presiden: of Elon College, has been mentioned, along with other distinguished educators, for the presidency of the univer sity. WILSONS SECOND TRIP TO PARIS On March 5, 1919, Woodrow Wil son left New York for a second trip to Paris to help formulate the Peace Treaty and the League of: Nations. On his first trip to Parts on De cember 4, 1918, President Wilson succeeded in persuading he Peace Conference to accept the principle of the League of Nations as a basis of peace and In drafting a prelim inary draft of the covenant. When he returned to the United States, however, he was confronted with Republican opposition to the League in the Senate. In order then to meet Republican suggestions, the President sailed again for France. This time he was able to secure the Insertion in the covenant of certain amendments required by American senators, and on June 28, 1919, the treaty was signed On his return to the Unite . States Wilson started a tour from coast to coast, making speeches for the league and declaring that if Amer ica rejected it she would'"break the great heart of the world." The President campaigned so strenous ly that he broke down on Septem ber 26, and was compelled to re turn to Washington. The chain store menace contin ues to occupy a good share of at tention. How to combat the situa tion is being solved by Oastonia merchants in a practical way. Some 60 of them have formed a pool for buying stock, so as to obtain the lowest prices, which will en able them to meet sharp competi tion. Thus, with goods bought at lowest obtainable prices and sell ing for cash, they will have little or nothing to fear from the chain store Former Chief Justice Taft, ac cording to latest reports, is slowly recovering. His physican had - about abondoned hope. Eight hundred bushels of corn on 16 acres is the record of the Kitchen brothers of Shooting Creek in Clay county after they had fol lowed a rotation Including red I clover. Previously, they made an average of 20 bushels of corn to ?n acre. , .,i I IT HOOVER'S FIRST YEAR On Tuesday Mr. Hoover rounded a his first year as president ;? at in on a tidal wave of popu arlty. breaking through the wall ,t the "Solid South" and carri-J ome of it with him. He had everything needed In the vay of confidence to make good. ,ut he has failed to maintain the ,ace set for him. It was not ex acted that Democrats would glori y him beyond what he justly and airly deserves. Looking about for an estimate of lis accomplishments and the im ?ress he has made, let us leave out vhat Democrats think about him Do Republicans think he has neasured up to the standard set !or him? *. It is expected that one's fnends Kill strain a point, if need be. to say nice things about him. Here comes a consistently Re publican paper, the Chicago Trib une, that does not think Mr. Hoo irer has measured up to expecta tions. _ Le us hear what the Tribune thinks and says about Hoover at the close of his first year as presi dent of the United States: "President Hoover is filling out tils first year of his administration SSh the senate tofrely unamen-, able to his ideas of legislation an administration. It is unusual for a president whose Section on the face of its returns, seemed to bej one unpopular confidence and even enthusiasm, which in " broke old traditions and establish ed new political conditions to nnd himself virtually immobilized by such opposition. A new present generally is in a strong ^ timi in| the early part of his administra tion and may be strong in begin ning another term. ??It is true that a good deal of what Mr. Hoover finds on his hands was what Mr- Coolidge had on his. It was not of much consequence to Mr. Coolidge. He was strong with the majority in his party, even If he so often needed the veto in dealing with Congress and had small chance toward the end of having his policies accepted by the radicals in the senate. He was re tiring from office and was not a candidate for re-election. His op position could not ruin him. wreck his administration, or spoil his rep uta ion. He did not try much to pla cr. it or to compromise with it, or at ill to get a benefit from it. To the elements which sought every opportunity to make trout.e for Coolidge several have been ad ded to make trouble for Hoover. They arose out of the conditions of his election. They deserted their natural political affiliations to sup port him against their own candi date because their own candidate was wet and also because they were opposed to his religion. "If Mr. Hoover thought?and it would seem that he did?that he could hold all the various cons'. - tuent parts of his election strength together and base an administra tion on that theory he was badly mistaken. In the election Mr. Borah was a forerunning with glad tid ings. Every other day now Mr. Borah is out on the doorstep ripping his garments and crying out against the iniquities of the government. The drys, whom Mr. Hoover has tried hard to please, refuse to admit him to fellowship. In the senate men like Norris and Brookhart threaten to tear prohibition enforcement to pieces with investigations to prove that it is corrupt and worthless. I "After a six month fight the drys, Capper and Allen, forced Mr. Hoover to make a Judicial appoint ment towhlch he was opposed and ' to which he should have remained opposed, that of Hopkins, to the dis trict bench of Kansas. When he made an appointment which he wanted to make, that of Hughes to be chief Justice of the Supreme court, the radicals took tour days ? filling the record with their com ments upon the unfitness of the ap j polntment. ; "Mr. Hoover tried to satisfy the pacifists by substituting the Kellogg treaty for the American navy, but all the fumbling of the American 'delegation in London has done to bring this about has produced only pacifist uproar in Washington against what they call the irresolu I tion of the administration in mak ing for peace by the surrender of defense. "The President will never satisfy the people with whom he has tried to keep an alignment. In their ex cesses they will always be miles be yond him and denouncing him as a laggard. In following them he can find a great deal of grief and CREDIT COMES HIGH FOR ] TENANT FARMERS Store credit costs tenant farm ers approximately 44 per cent and all credit advantages 38.6 per cent I according to findings of a survey ( made in Pitt, Edgecombe, Wayne and Lenoir counties by the de partment of agricultural economics at State college. c A careful and extensive study i was made under the supervision of t Dr. G. W. Forster on 112 farms or t plantations in these four counties i in 1928. Dr. Forster says that the ^ farms were operated by 558 crop- c pers and that 230 were selected at a random and their operations care- f fully studied. On the whole, the \ farms were probably better manag- s ed and operated than most, but not c greatly so. From the studies it was f found that the tenant's cash in-. t come was $766. The value of the 1: cropper's family labor was $271, s leaving him $495 for his annual / wage. But in addition to receiv- s ing an average of $766 in cash, the ropper got additional living from s the farm to the value of $170. This c made a total of $936 for the tenant r and his family for the year. 1 The Income varied somewhat ac- r cording to the size of the farm op- li erated. For instance, 90 croppers t who operated less than 20 acres of t land had a cash income of $543 v while 108 who operated from 20 to r 40 acres had a cash income of $808 v and 32 who cultivated over 40 acres s had a cash income of $1,253. r The total advances for cash and c supplies for the counties, were: t Wayne, $318; Lenoir, $306; . Edge- fc comb, 489; anji Pitt, $388, or an i average of $408 per cropper. The total Interest and time charges t paid on these cash advances and a supplies by the 588 croppers was e $60 in Wayne, $71, in Lenoir, $77 i in Edgecombe and $98 in Pitt or i an average of $78. This makes a t flat charge of 19.1 per cent and a { per annum charge of 38.6 per cent a for all credit advances. i \ COTTON GROWING FACTS GIVEN If I ' IN CIRCULAR J Because the market outloo^ f?P 5 cotton Is so poor this year grow- 1 ers will need to produce the crop , economically and to make: the best possible yields on a smaller acre ? " To aid in this, the North C*n>- 1 lina Experiment Station at State College has published agronomy in formation circular number P H. Kime. cotton expert, giving some of the important factors to be considered in growing the crop I this year. With cotton at 16 cents,. a pound and little likelihood that (I it will sell for more, the grower,, must do everything he can do to ! keep the cost of production under 16 cents. This means a decreased i acreage, using the best cotton lands < and increasing the yield. Produc- . ing eight bales on ten acres will . be more profitable than producing ten bales on 20 acres. Sandy loams and clay loan^ "e the best cotton soils, says Mr. Kime. They warm up earlier in the spring j < than the clay soils or th?se which are poorly drained. Earllness is an , important factor under boll weevil j conditions. Neither should a grow- . er attempt to grow cotton under ? bool weevil conditions on land that,, will produce only one-half bale an . acre under normal conditions. ? Thorough preparation of the soil , Ls essential, says Mr. Kime. A , slight ridge to the seed bed gives , better drainage and causes it to , warm up more quickly. will thus germinate more quickly , than when planted on a level. ? < Do not place the seed in direct , contact with the fertilize!r- ? 1 best to mix the plant food with the , soil at least a week or ten days be- , fore planting Close spacing and , frequent cultivation are two other points recommended in the circu- , lar Mr. Kline offers to send it ab solutely free to any cotton grower j wanting the information. ; Moore cmmtytanw^purchased 12 025 pounds of lespedeza seed and | then had to order 1.500 pounds I more to fill their needs. i a solid car^oTgrass seed for pas tures has been ordered by Ala mance county farmers for plant ing this spring. Exactly 2^570 persons" attended the eight live-at-home meetings held in Catawba county by the farm and home agent during the week ending February 15. humiliation, but he ca.uiol ucaLe an administration. He should take counsel of his own totelllgenw and moderation in forming Ms and taking his measures. the clamor of political quacks. im practical theorists, bigots and rely ine upon the intelligence and j moderation of the majority of the, I j American people. Did You Ever Stop To Think j | (Copyright 1928) iy Ednou R Waite. Shawnee, Okla. Juy Emerson, Vice President of the bankers Trust Company of New York Says: That there has been much talk if late about excessive speculation n securities. It is my opinion that here has never been a time when he American public generally were nvesting in such good securities is at present, and the proportion if stocks being carried on margin,; is compared to those fully paidi or, is small. While many persons' vill be disappointed because the J tocks of their speculating decline ir because they do not move ahead ast enough, the fact remains that! he majority of the investing pub- j ic are buying securities that repre ent basic American industries. The imerican public are becoming tockholders in the United States.; Up until the days <ff the war,! uitable investments were about the. inly thing that the man of small j neans could not easily obtain in' lis pro rata share. A man of large! neans had his farm, or house and' ot, or his small car. But previous! o the days of the Liberty Loan a lout the only thing the small in estor could do was to put his noney in a savings bank. There '? vill always be a very big plate for avings deposits. But there is no I eason why the men and women if this country, even, though they i te of moderate means, should not ! ?e able to own a share in the great ? ndustries of the United Stages. Liberty Bonds taught our people he feel of security. Great corpor itions sold stock to their employ- 1 ?s on the installment plan. To an ncreasing extent it will be true n the future that without in any letracting from the enormous lm- 1 jortance of saving through insur ince, bonds, and deposits in sav ngs banks, the average man and voman will be a stock holder in the ine, clean, well-managed corpora ions producing the great necessi ,ies of life in this country and by o doing they will become stock lolders in industrial America. The United States is a big coun ry and it is obviously in the inter- ' :sts of the people that business ihould be operated in large units, 'or only so can efficiency and econ >my, the adoption ?f ne\y meth )ds and improved services be de veloped. A wide spread participa ion in the stocks of our great Am :rican corporations will tend to iring about greater sanity in the ittitude of the public toward big business and of big business to ward the public, for it will soon be :rue, if it is not true today, that the investing public, numbering nany millions, will be the owners if big business. Thus has democ racy taken another great forward step in the United States. BETTER FARM-TO-MARKET ROADS ARE URGED Southern Planter, Richmond, Va. In an editorial under the heading if "Farm Roads," the Southern Planter for March 1, 1930, calls attention to the fact that nearly five million of the six and one fialf million farms of the United States are located on dirt roads, rhe Southern Planter urges that more of the gas tax go for the con struction and maintenace of farrn so-market roads. The editorial in full follows: "The cry of bett^j marketing facilities for farme rs is almost one if mockery in light of their con lition in reference to farm-to-mar ket roads. Of the 6,300.00 farms in the United States, 1,998,704 are an dirt roads that are graded and trained and 2,747,732 on unimprov ed dirt roads, or a total of 4,746, t36 farms, nearly five million, on dirt roads. Such a state of af fairs keeps the farmer from good markets. Good markets are of little advantage to the farmer if he can not reach them. The farmer must use trucks and automobiles, if he is to keep up the march of progress. Their use calls for surfaced roads. In New York State, it was found that farmers living on dirt roads not only own ed fewer motor trucks and auto mobiles than those living on hard surfaced roads, but the mileage they drove was less, being equiva lent to three and one half months' of use by farmers on hard surfaced roads. Farmers on dirt roads were able to haul full loads only one half as often as farmers on paved roads. Snow and mud caused los ses to 12 per cent of the farmers on hard-surfaced roads and 63 per cent on dirt roads. Too long the farmers' roads have been neglected. 'It has become well i recognized that the unification of the Unltd States by highways de-i pends not so much upon the con struction of a few thousand miles through, lnterurban roads as upon the development of a complete1 network of roads built for farm-to market, rural mall and school bus traffic,' a leading authority states. In our territory the great ma lority of the mileage of the local rural roads Is still unimproved. Too many farmers are residing on dirt' roads. In West Virginia 73 per cent of the farmers live on unimproved lirtdirt roads; In Virginia, 62 per rent; Maryland, 55 per cent; South Carolina, 54 per cent; Kentucky, 19 per cent; North Carolina, 46 per cent; Deleware, 45 per cent; ind Tennessee, 45 per cent. The great highways run from city to city and the farmer often ran not use them, because a few miles of dirt road, in an impassable condition, keeps him from reach ing them. They are to him but a Tantalus. He i? no longer willing to bear the burden which is now placed on him. He demands con sideration and will secure the jus tice in road building that has so long been due. Too much atten tion has been given to the tourist speeding, without thought to where tie is passing, from Kalamazoo to Timbuktu. He has no thought, but to make a given number of miles in a day, reach one destination only to pass on to another. State roads should be for the farmer first and the tourist second. More of the gas tax should go for the construc tion and maintenance of farm-to market roads. IT'S TIME THE FARMER HAD HIS DAY. NOTICE OF ASSIGNMENT! Notice is hereby given that George W. Clapo of Alamance County has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. All persons having claims against said assignor are hereby notified to file the same, duly verified, with the Clerk of the Superior Court of Alamance County, promptly, in order that they may share in the distribution of the assets in my hands. This the 25th day of Feb* 1930. T. H. WILLIAMS, Assignee. Commissioner's Sale ol Real Property. Under and by virtue of an order of the Superior Court of Alamance County, made in a Special Proceedings whereto all the heirs of L. B. Ward, were made parties for selling the lands in Alamance County, of which he died seized, the under signed will offer for sale to the highest bidder for cash, at the Court house door in Graham, on SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1930, at 12:00 o'clock, M., the follow ing valuable real estate: Lying and being in Pleasant Grove township, Alamance County, adjoining the lands of S. N. Ward, Dr. Watson and others and bounded as follows: Beginning at pointers with the old Hessee line, thence 1 deg w 22.85 chs to a black oak, Wat son's line; thence S 89J deg E 21 chs to a white oak: thence N 7| deg E 22.70 chs to a rock with the old Faucett line 88 deg W 23.50 chs to the beginning and containing 50 acres more or less. Second tract: Beginning at a large rock by the branch cor ner with the old Hessee line (now Ward), running thence S 24J deg 8.25 chs to a rock, cor ner with Z. B. Ward's lot; thence with his line 88 deg w 14 chs to a rock, corner with the old Lea Hue; thence with said line 2? deg E 14.76 chs to a rock: thence S 68 deg E 18.55 chs to the beginning and con taing 21 acres more or less. Both tracts adjoin and are the same upon which L. B. Ward lived at the time ofhfs death. On this place are 4 tobacco barns, pack barn, feed barn, crib, smoke house, dwelling house and kitchen and tenant house. This land lies well for cultivation, has two good wells, and is a good tobacco farm and will grow grain. Terms of Sale: Cash. The sale will be left open 20 days for advance bids and sale subject to confirmation of the Clerk of the Court. This the 5th day of March, 1930. J. S. COOK, Commissioner. Chattel Mortgage Blanks?For sale at Tub Glkankk office. HOBBIES OF STATESMEN ] What statesmen do to amuse them selves: President Hoover, of course, fishes. .Vice President Curtis goes to horse ] races. < Senator George Norrlg of Nebraska ' reads Dickens. ( Secretary Stimson plays tennis and < rides horseback. Owen D. Young's diversions are'for- ' estry and first editions, l Charles H. Hughes is f devotee of < walking and foreign travel. 1 Andrew Mellon collects paintings | and communes with fine literature. Newton D. Baker, former secretary 1 of war, Is fond of Latin, Greek and ! music. i Charles G. Dawes, ambassador to , the Court of St James, composes mel odies that are good enough to broad- ' cast Chief Justice Taft Is an ardent golf er at heart, although he plays no more. His summer home at Murray Bay, Can., Is a veritable library of biog raphies. ' To the Voters of Alamance County: ?I hereby announce myself a can didate for the office of Register of Deeds for Alamance county, subject ( to the action of the Democratic primary to be held June 7, 1930: If nominated and elected I will serve the people to the beet of my ability. T. O PENDER, Mebane, N. C ADMINISTRATRIX'S NOTICE. Having qualified as administratrix upon the estate of A. Lacy Holt, late of Ala mance County, State of North Carolina, this is to notify all persons having claims against the estate of said Intestate to present the same, duly authenticated, to the undersign ed on or before the 10th day of Mar., 1931. or this notice will be pleaded in bar of their recovery. All persons Indebted to said estate are reauested to make Immediate settlement. This Mar. 6.1930 MRS. A. LACY HOLT. Adm'r'i. J. 8. Cook, Atty. Notice of Sale of Real Estate. Under and by virtue of pow er and authority contained in that certain deed of trust, dated February 1st, 1929, and record ed in Book 111, Page 281, Ala mance County- Registry, and executed by W. J. Parker and wife to the Citizens National Bank of Raleigh. N. C., Trus tee, default having been made in the payment of the indebted ness secured thereby, whereby the entire amount of said in debtedness became due and demand having been made by the holder of said note upon the trustee named therein to adver tise and sell the property des cribed in said deed oi trust, the undersigned will offer for sale for cash at public auction at the Courthouse door in Graham, Alamance County, N. C., at noon, on FRIDAY, MARCH 28th, 1930, the following described real estate: All that certain tract or par cel of land in Burlington Town ship, Alamance County, State of North Carolina, adjoining the lands of W. J. Burke, E. C. Ingle, and Public Road, and bounded as follows: Beginning at an iron pin in center of Public Road, and 1,692 feet in a southeasterly direction from the intersection of said Public Road with the Alamance - Burlington Road, and corner with W. J. Burke; thence with the lines of W. J. Burke South 20 degrees West 739.2 feet to a stake; thence South 14 degrees West 1,142.5 feet to a stake, corner to E. C. Ingle, thence with E. C. Ingle's line South 87 degrees east 767.6 feet, to an iron pin; thence North 36 degrees 45 minutes East 1,446.1 feet to an iron pin in center line ot said Public road: thence with center line of said Public Road North 57 degrees 30 minutesWeet 1,294.2 feet to the beginning, contain ing 37.63 acres, more or less. This 15th of February, 1930. North Carolina Bank and Trust Company, Trustee, Successor to Citizens National Bank of Raleigh, N. C., Trustee, By: JOHN P. STEDMAN, Vice-President. Terms of Sale?Cash. Place of Sale?Courthouse door, Graham, N. C. Time of Sale?Noon, Friday, March 28th, 1930. Receiver's Sale of Real Estate! Under and by virtue of the power of sale contained in a jertain mortgage deed of trust July executed by James D. Christopher and wife, Blanche Christopher, in favor of Pied mont Trust Company, Trustee, >n the 28th day of April, 1919, md securing the payment of a series of bonds numbered from L to 14, both inclusive, hearing sven date with said mortgage leed of trust and payable to bearer, each in the sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars [1250.00) default having been made in the payment of said indebtedness as in said mort gage deed of trust provided, and by the further authority of an order of the Superior. Court iff Alamance County in an action therein ending, and being No. 3682 upon the Civil Issue Docket, the undersigned Receiver of Piedmont Trust Company will on the first Mon day iD April," 1930. at ten o'clock a. m., the same being MONDAY, APRIL 7th, 1930, at the courthouse door in Ala mance County, offer for sale at public auction to the highest bidder for cash the following described real property, to-wit: Three certain lots or parcels of land in Alamance County, North Carolina, described and defined as follows, to-wit: First Tract: Adjoining the lands of William Boon, J. S. Malone, W. B. Malone and others, bounded as follows: Beginning at a stone, John S. Malone's corner; thence N 86$ deg W 69$ yds to a stone W. B. Malone's line; thence N 2$ deg E 69$ yds to a stone; thence S 86$ deg E 69$ yds to a stone in John Malone's line; thence S 2$ deg W 69$ yds to the beginning, containing one (1) acres, more or less. Second Tract: Ad joining the lands of H. L. Coble, William Jeffreys and others bouuded as follows: Beginning at a stone, W. B. Malone's corner; thence S 87 deg E 8 chs 66 Iks to a stone in Lindsay's line; thence jj 3 dog E 2 chs 90 Iks to a stone, Coble's corner in William Jeffreys line; thence N 86$ deg W 8 chs 8 Iks to a stone in W. B. Malone's line; thence S 16 deg W 2 chs 94 Iks to the be ginning, containing Two and Forty-four One Hundredths (2.44) acres, more or less. Third Tract: Adjoining H. L. Coble, William Jeffreys and others, bounded as follows: Be ginning at a stone, William B. Malone's corner ;running thence . S 86$ deg E 8 chs 59 Iks to a stone in Lindsay's line; thence S 2$ W 11 chs 30 Iks to a stone on W. B. Lindsay's line; thence N 86$ deg W 8 chs 59 Iks to a stone, William B. Malone's corner; thence with the line of the said William B. Malone N 2$ deg Ell chs 30 Iks to the beginning, containing Nine and Seven Tenths (9.7) acres, more or less. On the above described property there is situated a six room cottage. The terms of the sale will be cash upon the date of sale and the purchaser will be furnished with a certificate by said Receiv er certifying the amount of his bid and receipt of the purchase price, and the sale will be left open ten days thereafter for the placing of advanced bids as re quired by law. Thi8 25th day of Feb., 1930. THOMAS D. COOPER, Receiver Piedmont Trust Oo. J. Dolph Long, Atty. J4adleys Jhe deWelers C ASTORIA J For Infants and Children In Um For Over 30Yiaare
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